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Intertidal flats are highly dynamic coastal environments that provide vital ecosystem services. Despite their importance, intertidal flats are declining worldwide. In response, a range of restoration and management measures are increasingly being applied to enhance sediment accumulation and stabilize the bed surface. However, the effectiveness of these interventions ultimately depends on how sediment properties and bed stabili...
Erosion and habitat loss on intertidal flats are increasingly fought through large-scale sediment nourishment. Yet the impact of nourishment on short-term bed-level dynamics remains poorly quantified. Daily erosion–accretion events shape the immediate physical environment experienced by benthic infauna: repeated burial and re-exposure set the physical bounds of the ecological niche, making bed-level dynamics a key indicator of...
Ecosystem transitions from bare to vegetated states often stall at early stages, before the biogeomorphic feedbacks needed for further expansion take hold. In aquatic systems, this bottleneck is especially common where inundation and hydrodynamic conditions may impose strong abiotic filters on pioneer establishment. Here, we integrate a manipulative field experiment with a simple probabilistic model to test whether tidal creek...
Differences in bed elevation shape subtidal mussel bed stability under high‐energy hydrodynamic eventsNARA Subscribed
Escalating high‐energy hydrodynamic events, like storms, represent a significant manifestation of global climate change, causing detrimental impacts on various ecosystems and potentially triggering thresholds that result in abrupt shifts in ecosystem states. Despite the potential of such thresholds, few studies have explicitly addressed them. This gap is particularly notable for subtidal ecosystems due to technological challen...
Tidal flats are valuable ecosystems that depend on complex biogeomorphic processes between organisms and sediment transport. Climate change has led to a rise in extreme weather events, such as storms. This, in turn, has increased sediment dynamics and created risks for the benthic communities inhabiting tidal flats. However, replicating sediment disturbances caused by extreme weather is difficult. To overcome this, we used the...
Striking large‐scale spatial patterns in ecosystems, generated by self‐organization through biotic and abiotic feedback processes, influence ecosystem functioning and response to global environmental change. A remarkable example of this are the regular ridge‐runnel patterns found on tidal flats, which play an important role in mudflat‐marsh transitions. Yet the mechanisms driving their formation, and whether they are abiotic o...
Intertidal coastal sediments are important centers for nutrient transformation, regeneration, and storage. Sediment resuspension, due to wave action or tidal currents, can induce nutrient release to the water column and fuel primary production. Storms and extreme weather events are expected to increase due to climate change in coastal areas, but little is known about their effect on nutrient release from coastal sediments. We...
Conflict analysis between commercial fisheries and common bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ) in the Dodecanese region, GreeceNARA Subscribed
Increasing depletion of fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea intensifies conflicts between fisheries and marine mammals, such as the common bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus , Montagu, 1821). To increase the knowledge of such interactions in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, fishing activities of commercial fisheries and biomass of fish families targeted by fisheries and T. truncatus were analysed to identify areas that are...
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